CVE-2016-2329

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

libavcodec/tiff.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.6 does not properly validate RowsPerStrip values and YCbCr chrominance subsampling factors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, related to the tiff_decode_tag and decode_frame functions.

Affected products

FFmpeg: through 2.8.5
openSUSE Leap: 42.1

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=89f464e9c229006e16f6bb5403c5529fdd0a9edd
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00129.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84212
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035010
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=89f464e9c229006e16f6bb5403c5529fdd0a9edd
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00129.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84212
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035010
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09

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